Summary: In New York City in the 1930s, a powerful crime family is caught in a lethal crossfire between union organizers and brutal corporate bosses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Platinum Disc LLC 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FUNSummary: O2 is an ex-con who is trying to go straight. His life takes a deadly turn when his son gets kidnapped in a carjacking and held for ransom by a ruthless druglord. With a street-smart hustler as his partner and his shady cousin along for the ride, O2 races through the violent streets of Los Angeles in a desperate attempt to outsmart rival gangs and save his son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAISummary: Strong violence, language and some sexual content/nudity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY KILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KILSummary: A collection of four of Humphrey Bogart's most classic roles is presented in this special gift set. He plays detective Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe in the Maltese Falcon and the Big Sleep, and stars in Casablanca and Key Largo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: A hired-gun seeks revenge from a client that betrayed him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THISummary: A hired killer in a state of virtual living death goes about his business in a muted Paris, a city of shadows, only to fatally admit emotion (the love of a woman) into his life. His actions are analogous to hara-kiri committed by the solitary samurai. Melville takes the mythology of the gangster and removes all overt social comment in favour of romantic stylisation. Melville commented that his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Filmel 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SAMSummary: Torn between the sinister yet seductive world of crime and the bonds of family loyalty, two brothers must risk their lives to make a stand in their brutal struggle for survival in the streets of New York.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LITSummary: Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang, she slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi's gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies. A bizarre blend of the female Yakuza film...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLISummary: A Roaring Twenties gangster saga that only the Coen brothers could concoct, Miller's Crossing marries the hard-boiled sensibility of classic noir fiction with the filmmakers' trademark savory dialogue, colorful characters, and finely calibrated set pieces. Gabriel Byrne brings a wry gravitas to the role of Tom Reagan, the quick-thinking right-hand man to a powerful crime boss (Albert Finney),...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Directors Albert and Allen Hughes and screenwriter Tyger Williams were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and 1992, young Caine is growing up under the influence of his ruthless,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUBSummary: "Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "La série se déroule à Paris et relate les exploits d'une bande de criminels qui se sont eux-mêmes baptisés "les Vampires." Musidora y interprète le rôle d'Irma Vep, une femme fatale dont le nom est l'évident anagramme de "vampire"". --Site wikipédia, consulté le 2 octobre 2014.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Classics 2012